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Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners
Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners by Richard Baxter.
London : To be sold by John Rothwell ..., 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. It is such a mode as deformeth Gods creature. It is a moral Being. It is a Relation of our actions and hearts to Gods will and Law.
2. They that say, Sin is nothing, say Pain and Loss is nothing too. You shall therefore be paid with one nothing for another. Make light of your misery, and say, It is nothing, as you did of your sin.
3. Will you take this for a good Excuse from your children or servants it they abuse you? Or from a Thief or a Murderer? shall he escape by telling the Judge that his sin was Nothing? Or rathe•have death, which is nothing, as the just eward of it?
3. Will you take this for a good Excuse from your children or servants it they abuse you? Or from a Theif or a Murderer? shall he escape by telling the Judge that his sin was Nothing? Or rathe•have death, which is nothing, as the just eward of it?
The three and thirtieth Excuse. But sin is a Transient thing. At least it doth God no harm, and therefore why sold he do us so much harm for it?